
Instagram Ups Its Curation Game, Makes Spotlight Videos Permanent
Evan Lorne / Shutterstock.com Following in the footsteps of Twitter’s Moments and Snapchat’s Live Stories, Instagram is making content...

Instagram Advertising: What’s Working?
Chukcha / Shutterstock.com My work involves looking into larger trends we (at Nanigans) observe across our base of hundreds of large...

10,000-Character Tweets May Arrive On Twitter In A Matter Of Months
The impact shouldn’t have a dramatic impact on the user timeline, however. According to the report, the character expansion would display...

Twitter Launches Conversational Ads To Get People Tweeting About Brands
Twitter’s new Conversational Ads mix polls with custom hashtags and rich media with the aim of getting users to share their responses...

Snapchat Is Reportedly Developing An API For Advertising
Slightly over a year since its first ad, Snapchat is actively developing an application programming interface (API) to...

Facebook’s Human News Feed Raters Are Now Working Worldwide
Facebook is now using human raters around the world, not just in the US, to help its algorithms decide what should appear in the News...

The Big Wrap-Up: The Top 10 Columns On Marketing Land In 2015
From the death (again) of Google+ to social media advertising and mobile business apps, Marketing Land’s most popular columns of the year...

30 Seconds Or Less: How To Engage The Distracted Consumer
30 seconds or less. This is the average length of time that consumers spend reading or listening to online marketing communications....

Twitter (Finally) Updates Its Mac Desktop Client
Call it a late holiday present if you’d like: Twitter has finally released an updated version of its desktop client for Mac users....

Engagement Galore: Marketing Land’s Most Social Stories Of 2015
Welcome back to our annual year-in-review coverage! Over the past few weeks, we have been revisiting popular stories from 2015 as we...

From Likes To Tweets: Our Top Social Media Marketing Columns Of 2015
Social media marketing is a fussy and ever-evolving beast. New platforms are continually arising, while others lose their luster and fade...

The Secret Formula For Irresistible LinkedIn Connection Requests
“I’d like to add you to my professional network on LinkedIn.” OK, maybe that’s a bit of stretch, but not much. Aside from using a...

Twitter Updates Rules To Fight Abusive Behavior
In an attempt to make Twitter a safer and more comfortable place for users (and brands) to communicate, the company today updated its...

Adobe Launches Adobe Post To Help You Build Better Social Graphics
Need a quick and easy way to create graphics for social campaigns? Adobe can help with that. The company has launched a new iPhone app,...

Facebook Is Testing Ability To Search Within Page Posts
Facebook has made major improvements to search within the last year. Last year at this time, the company re-enabled searching within...

Wins And Losses From The Social Teams Of The NFL
dean bertoncelj / Shutterstock.com Football has always sparked great conversations — whether it’s chatting with your family while...

Pinterest Brings Price Drop Notifications To Buyable Pins
Pinterest announced today that it will now notify users when there’s a price drop on Buyable Pins that they have saved. The notifications...

Buffer Expands Beyond Social Management Into Customer Service With Acquisition Of Respond.ly
Social media management platform Buffer is adding social customer service to its resume today, with the announcement that it has...

Facebook Opens Live Streaming Video To Brands With Verified Pages
Facebook is finally giving brands the ability to stream live video. Today, the social network announced that verified Pages will now be...